Tobacco users can call Quitline (Tennessean)
Health officials have launched a telephone hot line geared toward helping people quit smoking and chewing tobacco, making Tennessee one of the last states to adopt a program that most have offered for years, anti-smoking advocates say.
Source: tennessean.com
Workplace smoking ban could slash related diseases by almost a third: study (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Imposing a ban on smoking in the workplace could reduce the incidence of smoking-related illnesses in Europe by between four and 32 percent, a study presented here said.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Aktiv-Dry Awarded Research Grant To Develop Inhalable Vaccine To Help Stop Smoking (Medical News Today)
Aktiv-Dry LLC, a biotechnologycompany dedicated to developing inhalable aerosol vaccines, has beenawarded a $850,000 SBIR grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse atthe National Institutes of Health to develop an inhalable nicotine vaccineto help smokers quit smoking for good. Jim Searles, Ph.D. [click link for full article]
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com
Aussie study links asthma to smoking (PhysOrg)
Australian scientists who spent nearly 40 years on a research program say asthma in adults can be the result of maternal smoking.
Source: www.physorg.com
New Survey Highlights Difficulties Physicians Face in Treating Smoking (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
BARCELONA, Spain—-Sept. 4, 2006– Survey Reveals Significant Differences in Attitudes Between Non-Smoking and Smoking Physicians A majority of physicians believe that smoking is the most harmful activity to affect their patients' long-term health by a considerable margin over lack of exercise, unhealthy diet, drinking alcohol and over-eating/obesity, according to results from one of the
Source: biz.yahoo.com
Local Woman Wins Steelers Tickets For Quitting Smoking (WTAE ThePittsburghChannel.com via Yahoo! News)
An Allegheny County woman is getting free tickets to the Steelers' home opener next week because she quit smoking. Michelle Mural of South Park won the "Quitters Always Win" contest that was put together by Tobacco Free Allegheny, the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Mural quit more than one year ago, when she was expecting her first child. She said she was inspired
Source: news.yahoo.com
Recognizing WTC-related health problems (The Monterey County Herald)
The New York City Health Department issued long-awaited instructions to doctors Thursday for treating and detecting illnesses related to the Sept. 11 attacks, including a warning that smoking can make those health problems worse.
Source: www.montereyherald.com
Products that promise help may do opposite (Sun-Sentinel)
Warning labels on cigarette packs may be well and good, but a new study suggests that advertisements for products designed to help people stop smoking — or, for that matter, to lose weight, reduce debt or otherwise stop bad behavior — should carry a health warning of their own.
Source: www.sun-sentinel.com
